A few years ago during Christmastime, my brothers and I received some new Kinect games for our Xbox because we didn't have that many and the Kinect was starting to gather dust. One of them was called Child of Eden. This is a game created by Tetsuya Mizuguchi, who created the slightly more well known game "Rez" for the PlayStation 2 and the Sega Dreamcast. For those of you who have never played this game (Child of Eden), which is probably most of you, this game is all about how in the near future, Lumi, the first person born on the international space station. She was never able to go to Earth, but she dreamed about it her whole life, and she conveyed her feelings into songs she made with her band "Genki Rockets" and sent them to Earth. When she died, her body was preserved and memories archived. Later, scientists tried to recreate her likeness in the Internet (which is called Eden at this time) and everything goes awry when a virus infects the system. Your goal is to expel the virus in Eden and save "Project Lumi."
The game's visuals are similar to Rez's in the way that they are very stunning. At least when I play the game I spend a lot of the time looking at the visuals, which get better and better the bigger the screen you have because it becomes more immersive. If you suffer from epilepsy or have a history of seizures, then be warned that the visuals could trigger that. It is very bright, colorful, and overall is a complete pleasure for the eyes unless you have a really high brightness setting on your T.V.
The overall difficulty of the game is actually quite fair at first. It's not easy at first but that's only really because you haven't gotten used to the controls yet. If the game becomes too difficult for you to muster than you can always change the difficulty from normal to "Feel Eden" which is basically kids mode, where you don't take any damage from enemies and you can explore the game in more detail, at least that's what it's for.
I love this game, but it didn't sell well despite having really positive review scores for the most part, and most people who bought the game enjoyed it a lot. The only problem I can really find with this game is that it can be really short, but I will let you decide that for yourself.
If you have played this game and like/hate it, let me know in the comments below.
By the way here are some links to Genki Rocket's music because it actually is pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL2od1AF_Cs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFgVvMK4EfU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rpz6ONidM
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